📰 Market News

Why a personalised news feed beats generic finance media

The News page filters general market headlines down to articles that actually mention assets you own. Most finance sites bury the stories that matter to you under a wall of clicks about everything else; this view inverts that ratio.

How the feed is built

When you open the page, the app pulls the latest market news from the Finnhub company news and market news endpoints, then matches the article symbols against the tickers in your portfolio. Articles that mention one of your holdings rise to the top; the rest are filtered out (or shown in a secondary "general market" section, depending on your settings). The result is a feed where every story is potentially relevant to a position you actually have skin in.

How to use the feed effectively

1. Skim, don't doom-scroll. Headlines are designed to grab attention. Read the first paragraph of anything that looks important; only click through to the full article if it changes a fact you'd act on.
2. Distinguish news from opinion. Earnings reports, regulatory filings, and product announcements are facts. "Analyst raises price target" or "Twitter reacts to" pieces are opinion. Both have value but they belong in different mental buckets.
3. Watch for repeat themes. One article about a sector slowdown is noise; five articles in two days is a signal worth investigating.
4. Date-check before reacting. Some articles get re-circulated long after the underlying event. Always check the publication date — a hot take from six months ago can feel new on a slow news day.

What the news can't tell you

News reflects what just happened, not what will happen. By the time a stock-moving story is on every site, the price has typically already moved. Use the feed to understand recent action and to keep your knowledge of your holdings current — not as a real-time trading signal. Long-term investors generally do better tuning out daily news cycles entirely; short-term traders need much faster, more specialised tools than a free dashboard.

Combining news with the rest of the app

If a news story makes you reconsider a position, jump to the Compare page to put that asset side by side with alternatives, then check your overall exposure on Charts to see how big a deal a price move there would actually be for your net worth. The full workflow is: notice a story → size up the position → decide if it's actually worth acting on. Most of the time the answer is "no", and that's a feature, not a bug.